Politics of Social Change : : In the Middle East and North Africa / / Manfred Halpern.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Halpern, Manfred,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1863
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; FOREWORD --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONTENTS --; PART I. THE LEGACY OF THE PAST AND THE CLAIMS OF THE PRESENT --; PART II. THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY --; PART III. THE RANGE OF POLITICAL CHOICES --; PART IV. INSTRUMENTS OF POLITICAL MODERNIZATION --; PART V. THE COST AND CONSEQUENCES OF MIDDLE EASTERN CHOICES DOMESTICALLY, REGIONALLY, AND INTERNATIONALLY --; INDEX --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400875344; 9783110426847; 9783110413601; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400875344
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Manfred Halpern.

The author, analyzing major social groups in this area, treats particularly the "new middle class," a group socially isolated from the traditional life of Islam and committed to a wide-ranging modernizing impulse.Originally published in 1963.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.